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As AI writes more code, software quality faces new risks. SmartBear research highlights why human oversight, testing and governance remain essential.
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Every demo from an AI testing tool vendor ends with a promise to cut test design effort from hours to minutes. Surprisingly, one important question is missing from these conversati…
AI
AI is automating coding, but software engineering still requires human judgment. Explore what shifting developer demand means for DevOps, QA and software delivery.
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Game testing has always been an unpredictability problem for developers. Players move in the wrong direction, trigger events out of order, or combine mechanics no designer anticipa…
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Every software team eventually runs into the same question: How much testing is enough? For years, the default answer has been “more.” More automated tests. More regression suites.…
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Test management tools do more than track results. Learn how they give engineering teams the coverage visibility needed to ship with confidence.
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What does a modern DevOps workflow look like? Click to learn about the essential elements, tools, and practices involved in the effective work process.
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Kaizen, a philosophy of continuous improvement that, when combined with collaboration and visionary leadership, can turn QA teams into well-oiled machines of productivity and innov…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
There are still challenges for QA teams within DevOps, including the need to “shift left.” Crowdtesting can help.
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
mabl today added a load testing capability to its portfolio of application testing tools that it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. That capability promis…
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Continuous testing has emerged as a critical aspect of quality assurance in the DevOps era. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in software development methodolo…
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You may be familiar with the “-ilities”–the quality attributes that define a system’s so-called “non-functional” parts. One that isn’t on the list is decidability, which is the ult…
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JPMorgan recently announced it was hiring 2,000 engineers, despite the gloom in global economic markets. Is this not an odd risk for an organization to take, given the demand for (…
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So many language/framework options, so little testing time, that is. Recently, two projects I was working on drove me to check out a breadth of languages and/or frameworks to handl…
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I was reading Nuria Manuel’s excellent article about quality assurance (QA), and it got me thinking about the wide variety of ‘pendulums’ that impact IT. I call them pendulums beca…
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Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Most know it as a staple part of the software process that is crucial for producing quality code. But throughout the pande…
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In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what c…
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Despite the risk of unplanned downtime, many organizations that develop software and services push them live without adequately testing for bugs that will manifest against producti…
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If you work in software quality assurance (QA), it’s time to find a new job. The overall software development process has always consisted of the following core activities: Creatin…
